<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f03d980e-7fff-c06b-d5be-c2276249ba19"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Williams College Geosciences Department invites applications for the Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship includes 2 years of salary and research support while in residence at Williams College. Williams is a liberal arts college in western Massachusetts with 2000 undergraduates and strong focus on excellence in teaching and in research. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Bolin Fellowships are awarded to applicants who show exceptional promise as scholars, who have an interest in and capacity for teaching students in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to, among other things, race, gender, citizenship, ethnicity, religion, and who are pursuing a career in higher education in the United States. Ph.D. candidates must have completed all doctoral work except the dissertation by the end of the current academic year. Bolin Fellows typically complete and defend their dissertation in the first year of the fellowship (2026-2027). They teach one course each year. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The application deadline is November 15, 2025.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More information on the Bolin Fellowship is at this link:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://employment.williams.edu/faculty-positions/2026-gaius-charles-bolin-dissertation-and-post-mfa-fellowship-geosciences/">https://employment.williams.edu/faculty-positions/2026-gaius-charles-bolin-dissertation-and-post-mfa-fellowship-geosciences/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please circulate this announcement to anyone who may be interested!</span></p></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mea S. Cook (she/her) [<a href="https://namedrop.io/meacook" target="_blank">pronunciation</a>]<br></div><div>Professor and Chair of <a href="https://geosciences.williams.edu/" target="_blank">Geosciences</a></div><div>Williams College<br></div><div>18 Hoxsey Street</div><div>Williamstown, MA 01267</div><div>(413) 597-4541</div></div></div></div>